Santa in Space Watches for Satellites on Rush Hour Orbit
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP Santa Claus travels the heavens as space junk clutter fills the sky. Some 297 man made objects and 600 pieces of debris orbit from 100 miles to millions of miles, with a band of 202 fragments near Transit debris and 400 million copper wires forming a belt around the globe. US and Soviet launches show the United States leading in orbital activity with 256 satellites and nine cosmonauts. the Soviet Union has 76 satellites and nine cosmonauts.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Santa Claus
United States
Soviet Union
Santa
U.S
Blind girl’s first colored tree becomes Christmas card
Six year old Vickie Ailer, blind since early childhood, drew a colored tree on a raised screen. The Delta Gamma alumnae fund published it as a Christmas card for the Pre-School for the Visually Handicapped. Her family from Odessa, Missouri, notes her cheerful resilience and busy daily routine.
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Kansas City
Vickie Ailer
Vickie
Delta Gamma
Gwen Speyer
James Ailer
Odessa
Ronnie
Mrs. Ailer
Carla
Chidren
Missouri's Preseason Run Tops Big Eight Play
Missouri, led by Ned Monsees, posted strong pre season form with 56 points in the last two games including 32 against Rice in Houston as the team moved to 4-2 before facing SMU in Dallas. Nebraska and Iowa State also posted wins as Big Eight squads swept nonleague foes.
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Missouri
Ned Monsees
Monsees
Rice
Houston
Nebraska
California
Lincoln
Iowa State
Marquette
Ames
SMU
Dallas
Kansas City
K-State
Kansas
Oklahoma State
Huskers
Fred Hare
Nate Branch
Hare
Branch
Bob Ziegler
Marequette
Ziegler
Drake
Hold Line Exceptions To Budget
A Kansas labor group proposed a hold-the-line budget stance with exceptions for mental health state educational institutions and vocational education. The statement was issued Tuesday in Topeka by the organization.
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Viet Nam
Phan Khac Suu
South
High National Council
Topeka
Kansas
Polar Bear Stolen In New Jersey Deli Displays A 6 Foot Prized Figure
Mike Nowicky reported a 6 foot 150 pound stuffed polar bear was taken from his East Brunswick deli and drive-in. The theft follows debates among elected officials on tax policy and school funding, with calls to exempt food and medicine from the sales tax and to pursue a natural gas severance tax and a state income tax withholding plan. The state legislature and Gov elect Bill Avery were cited in discussions about tax reform and fiscal policy.
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Kansas Industrial Union Council
Afl-Cio
J. Yount
School Foundation
Nowicky
East Brunswick
Mike Nowicky
Ity
Bill Avery
Church Father Vincent G and Brown Father Thomas F
Scaletty Grace Episcopal Ltd and Lincoln to All from the staff of Berthol Planing Mill at 106 N Ashby.
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Vincent G
Brown
Thomas F
Scaletty
Grace Episcopal Church Ltd
Lincoln
Berthol Planing Mill
Ashby
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U.S.S.R
Uni
Mars
Jim van Valkenburg
Associated Press
St. Louis
Columbia
Brewer
Robert C. Reynold
Fred E. Skinner
Harry Byers & Sons Inc
Plummer
Chanute Lumber CO
Gray Lumber CO
Chanute Seeensee
Concordia
Dodge City Pete
Emporia
Garden City Settee
Goodland
Hill City
Manhattan
Olathe
Mera
Chanute
Peoples Cleaners
New York
Washington Ae
Christ
St. Patrick's
Henry & Orpha Myers
Yuletide
Chanute Auto Parts
Wee
Skinney Electric Service
West Main
Omaha
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